Literature & Views/ ስነ ጽሁፍና ዕይታዎች

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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“Lying, Plato says explicity, is to be a prerogative of the government, just as giving medicine is of physicians.”

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolo Machiavelli

የማይነጋ ህልም ሳልምየማይድን በሽታ ሳክምየማያድግ ችግኝ ሳርምየሰው ሂወት ስከረክምእኔ ለእኔ ኖሬ አላቅም::

ፀጋይ ገ መድህን

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

Thomas Hobbes

“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”

Arthur Koestler

A prince, therefore, being compelled knowingly to adopt the beast, ought to choose the fox and the lion, because the lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves. Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves